The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low-level for experienced foodies, or don't offer enough hands-on training.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
